Danieli Verônica Longo Benedetti
She holds a postdoctoral degree, a doctorate
and a master's degree from ECA/USP/FAPESP. Specialist in piano teaching by the
École Normale de Musique de Paris and piano interpretation by the Conservatoire
National de Strasbourg, France. He carried out research internships at the
Music Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France – BnF and Médiathèque
Musical Mahler, where he obtained access to the entire restricted collection
related to the research carried out. She is the scientific editor of the Dezède
database (dezede.org) in France. She is Professor of Piano at the Institute of
Arts of UNESP. d.benedetti@unesp.br
Nahim Marun
He holds a Master's
degree from The Mannes College of Music (New York), completed a Post-Doctorate
at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV), studied piano with Isabel Mourão
and Grant Johannesen. Musicology and theoretical subjects with Koellreutter,
Schachter and Pistone. He has been a professor at UNESP since 1998. nahim.marun@unesp.br
Abstract: The private collection
of French pianist Marguerite Long (1874-1966), owned by the Mediathèque Musical
Mahler in Paris, has an extensive archive which contains a significant
collection of correspondence received from a large number of personalities.
This collection includes three letters in French, written by the Brazilian
composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, sent to the renowned pianist: two of them dated
1952, typed and another entirely handwritten and undated. This article, result
of an ongoing research, intends to transcribe, translate and think about this
brief but revealing correspondence.
Keywords: Heitor Villa-Lobos. Marguerite Long. correspondence. Mediathèque Musical Mahler. Piano.